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Officer Needs Our Help On October 27, 2006 Officer Danita
Marsh, (at left), a police officer in Tennessee, was ambushed while sitting
in her patrol vehicle trying to assist a domestic violence victim. That
fateful day changed a lot of lives. It changed Danita's Marsh's life
forever. She is now paralyzed from the waist down. Officer Marsh, like countless other
officers suit up everyday to go out to our city streets to keep the peace,
insure decorum, and try to keep our families safe. Let's show Officer
Marsh that we appreciate her and her commitment to service. We are one big extended family. We've
asked Extreme Makeover-Home Edition to assist Officer Marsh in achieving her
goal that she vowed to walk again. Show how much you believe in that goal by putting
your name down to let ABC Producer s know that we want this story of courage
and determination to make the show for a newly built house for Danita Marsh
and her son, to meet their special needs.
Please forward your name, city & zip to the petition being put
together at
flight582@cox.net . At least
500 names are needed to send this petition in. Lt. Gilbert
Reith, Jr. |
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Dispatches: Official
Newsletter of Officers of Avalon |
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Dispatches: Volume 2 No. 2 Eostre/Alban Eilir/Méan Earraigh/Ostara 2007 |
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March 21is the Spring or
Vernal Equinox. Wiccans call the
spring equinox Eostre, Ostara or Alban Eilir (“light of the earth”). It is a Lesser Sabbat on the Wiccan
calendar. Druids call this festival
Eostre, Alban Eilir, Méan Earraigh or Méan An Earraigh. In Old High German its name was “Ostarun”,
becoming “Ostern” in Modern German. In
Bede's Ecclesiastical History it was spelled “Eastre”, as it was in Old English before 899. By 1103 it had become “Estran”. In Middle English (before 1387) it was
spelled “Ester” or “Esterne”. Eostre marks the beginning of
Spring. It is a celebration of the
return of life to the Earth after the long winter. Its name derives from the Anglo-Saxon
Goddess Eostre (or Ostara), who was believed to fly over the Earth, leaving
the eggs (beginnings) of new life. It
was not derived, as some claim, from the Middle Eastern Goddess Astarte. Eostre’s totem animal was the rabbit. Both of these symbols have been
incorporated into the modern Christian celebration of Easter. This date is also sacred to the Norse
Goddess Iduna. It is from this festival and the name of this Germanic Goddess that
the Christian festival of Easter was derived.
The system for fixing the date of the Christian festival of Easter is
still based on the date of March 21, being the first Sunday after the first
full moon that occurs on or after March 21.
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Cauldron at
main ritual site, Dragonfest, CO, 1990 |
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Officers
of Avalon was founded in December 1999 and incorporated on 11 September, 2003
in the state of Nevada |